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There is a central conflict at the heart of human nature between our hard-wired tendency to fit in with a group ("follow the trend"), and our desire to explain our own actions in a way that makes us seem like unique snowflakes ("march to the beat...

"The pen is mightier than the sword." My grade-school self used to laugh that saying off as composition-teacher propaganda of the sort designed to get energetic boys to pay more attention to their writing exercises and less attention to playing...

If you are reading this, you are hopefully well aware that here at IvyVest, we believe in taking a systematic approach to investing. We like to adjust our allocations based on the cold, hard, numbers, rather than by relying on “gut feel” or...

In the past few years, the number of high quality Exchanged Traded Funds (ETFs) available to the average investor has increased dramatically. As always, the additional choices come with a tradeoff: there are better options than ever before, but...

That more and more investors are turning to passive strategies that employ low-cost ETFs and index mutual funds such as those from Vanguard (which we recommend) is, on the whole, a great thing. No visitor to this website should be surprised that I...

So the New Year brought a flurry of new activity, both to IvyVest, which saw a spark in traffic and subscribers, to my book, which saw a spike in sales, and to the markets, which have seen a spike in volatility.